I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
We love because he first loved us.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
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